[TYRA Talk] 2025-11-08 聲音中的地理：從語音看台灣與周邊地區的語言相似性
台灣因為歷史、地理與族群的多樣性，語言之間產生了許多互相影響的現象。然而，現有研究多半聚焦於單一案例，缺乏全面而系統性的觀點來理解台灣語言接觸的整體樣貌。此研究正是為了填補這個空缺。研究團隊運用統計方法，觀察台灣及鄰近地區 123 種語言或方言的發音是否存在相似性，並挑選出 16 個具有代表性的語音進行分析。分析的同時，也將地理分布與語言家族差異納入考量。研究結果發現，中國沿岸地區與台灣，因為語言的相似性，可以歸類為一個獨特的語言區域。
|| 摘要（Abstract）:
Taiwan exhibits rich linguistic diversity, complex history, and geographical diversity. To-gether, these create a nuanced context for examining areal patterns and contact-induced linguistic features. One example is Taiwan Mandarin, in which the sibilant /tʂ/ undergoes deretroflexion to /ts/, distinguishing it from Mandarin varieties spoken in China (Kubler, 1985; Chuang and Fon, 2010; Fon, 2020).
The current literature lacks an overarching and systematic perspective on Taiwan’s language contact phenomenon. This research addresses this gap by conducting a Bayesian statistical analysis of contact effects in Taiwan and its surrounding regions. We estimate the distribution of 16 selected phonemes characteristic of the 123 languages or dialects spoken in Taiwan and beyond. We employ the multivariate probit model, incorporating the Gaussian Process to control for spatial dependencies, and the phylogenetic regression to account for language family confounds (Guzmán Naranjo and Mertner, 2023).
Reference
Kubler, C. C. (1985). The influence of southern min on the mandarin of taiwan. Anthropological Linguistics, 27(2), 156–176.
Chuang, Y.-Y., & Fon, J. (2010). The effect of prosodic prominence on the realizations of voiceless dental and retroflex sibilants in taiwan mandarin spontaneous speech. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010.
Fon, J. (2020). The phonetic realizations of the mandarin phoneme inventory: The canonical and the variants. Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition: Multidisciplinary Approaches in Chinese Languages, 11–36.
Guzmán Naranjo, M., & Mertner, M. (2023). Estimating areal effects in typology: A case study of african phoneme inventories. Linguistic Typology, 27(2), 455–480.
|| 講者（Speaker）:
德國弗萊堡大學語言所博士生，專研類型語言學、地理語言學與社會語言學。博士研究聚焦於運用量化與統計方法探討語言之間的接觸與影響；此外，個人其他研究計畫亦涵蓋臺灣的歷史語言接觸現象。
|| 研究領域（Field）:
藝術及人文領域
|| 研究子領域（Sub-field）:
語言學、類型語言學、地理語言學
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|| 活動時間（Event Time）:
11/08/2025 09:00 PM Taiwan
11/08/2025 05:00 AM PST Pacific Time
11/08/2025 06:00 AM MST Mountain Time
11/08/2025 07:00 AM CST Central Time
11/08/2025 08:00 AM EST Eastern Time
11/08/2025 01:00 PM GMT England
11/08/2025 02:00 PM CET Berlin
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